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Famous people born on October 19

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Well-known people born on October 19 include Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), John le Carré (1931) and Philip Pullman (1946). Our list below has 79 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 19 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1605 (Thomas Browne) and the most recent is 2004 (Evan Ferguson). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.

Who was born on October 19?

  1. Miguel Ángel Asturias 1899 Guatemalan writer and diplomat
  2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910 Indian-American astrophysicist
  3. John le Carré 1931 British novelist and spy
  4. Philip Pullman 1946 English author
  5. Hibatullah Akhundzada 1967 Supreme Leader of Afghanistan since 2021
  6. Michael Gambon 1940 Irish and English actor
  7. John Lithgow 1945 American actor
  8. Jon Favreau 1966 American actor and filmmaker
  9. Pedro Castillo 1969 President of Peru from 2021 to 2022
  10. Rebecca Ferguson 1983 Swedish actress
  11. Angus Deaton 1945 British microeconomist
  12. Thomas Browne 1605 English polymath and author
  13. Jean Dausset 1916 French immunologist
  14. Trey Parker 1969 American actor, animator and filmmaker
  15. Umberto Boccioni 1882 Italian painter and sculptor
  16. Heikki Kovalainen 1981 Finnish racecar driver
  17. Gunnar Nordahl 1921 Swedish association football player
  18. Wang Yi 1953 Chinese diplomat leader, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office…
  19. Hiromi Hara 1958 Japanese association football player and manager
  20. Peter Tosh 1944 Jamaican reggae singer and musician
  21. Takeshi Koshida 1960 Japanese association football player
  22. Evander Holyfield 1962 American boxer
  23. Lewis Mumford 1895 American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic
  24. Vinícius de Moraes 1913 Brazilian composer, singer, writer
  25. Omar Gooding 1976 American actor
  26. Divine 1945 American actor, singer and drag queen
  27. Sam Allardyce 1954 English association football player and manager
  28. Yakubu Gowon 1934 Nigerian politician and Military general
  29. Jorge Valdivia 1983 Chilean former footballer
  30. Péter Medgyessy 1942 Hungarian politician
  31. Jason Reitman 1977 Canadian-American film director
  32. Agnès Jaoui 1964 French actress, film director, screenwriter and singer
  33. Miroslav Stoch 1989 Slovak association football player
  34. Walter Bradford Cannon 1871 American physiologist
  35. Leigh Hunt 1784 British critic, essayist, poet and writer
  36. Katie Douglas 1998 Canadian actress
  37. Hans Schäfer 1927 German footballer
  38. George Albert Boulenger 1858 Belgian-British zoologist
  39. Muhammad Ali Bogra 1909 Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
  40. Vladimir Gabulov 1983 Russian footballer
  41. Herbert Kickl 1968 Austrian politician
  42. Pierre Alechinsky 1927 Belgian and French painter and engraver
  43. Marguerite Perey 1909 French physicist
  44. Manolo Escobar 1931 Spanish singer and actor
  45. Okan Buruk 1973 Turkish footballer and manager
  46. Judith Suminwa 1967 DR Congolese politician
  47. Verónica Castro 1952 Mexican actress and singer
  48. Gillian Jacobs 1982 American film, theater and television actress
  49. Tracy Chevalier 1962 American writer
  50. Kim Ji-won 1992 South Korean actress
  51. Desmond Harrington 1976 American actor
  52. Li Yuanhong 1864 Chinese general and politician
  53. Nir Barkat 1959 Minister of Economy of Israel since 2024
  54. Habib Beye 1977 Senegalese-French football manager
  55. Haxhi Lleshi 1913 Albanian politician
  56. Jim Rogers 1942 American writer
  57. Evan Ferguson 2004 Irish association football player
  58. Raúl Tamudo 1977 Spanish footballer
  59. Agne Simonsson 1935 Swedish footballer and manager
  60. Nouria Mérah-Benida 1970 Algerian athletics competitor
  61. Nobuyuki Zaizen 1976 Japanese association football player
  62. Lubomír Štrougal 1924 Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
  63. Borisav Jović 1928 Serbian diplomat
  64. Juanita Moore 1914 American actress
  65. Russell Kirk 1918 American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and…
  66. Jonathan Haidt 1963 American social psychologist
  67. Prince Laurent of Belgium 1963 Belgian Royal
  68. Enrique Bernoldi 1978 Brazilian racing driver
  69. Carlo Urbani 1956 Italian physician
  70. Teresa Ciepły 1937 Polish sprinter and hurdler
  71. Farid al-Atrash 1917 Syrian-Egyptian singer, composer and musician
  72. Ruslan Chagaev 1978 Uzbekistani boxer
  73. Michael Steele 1958 American politician
  74. Lil Durk 1992 American rapper
  75. Manuel Quintana 1835 Argentine politician
  76. Jürgen Croy 1946 East German association football player and manager
  77. Vasco Pratolini 1913 Italian writer
  78. Jonathan Santana 1981 Paraguayan association football player
  79. Matej Mohorič 1994 Slovenian professional cyclist

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 19 share the 19th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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